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javeryh:
So how do they teleport with mushrooms? I'm so confused.

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: javeryh on August 14, 2018, 06:25:34 pm ---So how do they teleport with mushrooms? I'm so confused.

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That's one of my main gripes with Discovery. Yes it's all made-up techno-babble, but on previous series it always at least sounded like it could be based on science. Discovery went full Doctor Who.... "yes we can teleport because of spores and the reason is.... hey look over there at that explosion! no time to explain!"

wp34:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on August 14, 2018, 11:41:41 pm ---That's one of my main gripes with Discovery. Yes it's all made-up techno-babble, but on previous series it always at least sounded like it could be based on science. Discovery went full Doctor Who.... "yes we can teleport because of spores and the reason is.... hey look over there at that explosion! no time to explain!"

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That sounds suspiciously like Midi-chlorians.

I loved Next Generation but it seemed like every episode was ended with a "tachyon burst" or "redirecting the sensor array" to solve a problem. But yeah it at least felt like science.

shponglefan:

--- Quote from: wp34 on August 15, 2018, 08:32:28 am ---That sounds suspiciously like Midi-chlorians.

I loved Next Generation but it seemed like every episode was ended with a "tachyon burst" or "redirecting the sensor array" to solve a problem. But yeah it at least felt like science.

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TNG had its midichlorian moment when they attempted an in-universe explanation for why all alien races were bipedal humanoids. They gave credence to the concept of intelligent design and undercut the science of biological evolution in the most unnecessary Star Trek episode ever.

Vigo:

--- Quote from: shponglefan on August 15, 2018, 05:08:59 pm ---They gave credence to the concept of intelligent design and undercut the science of biological evolution in the most unnecessary Star Trek episode ever.

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:laugh2: I love how that seemingly offends you, being that Star Trek upends current limited scientific knowledge on a regular basis, and science is meant to be upended. The episode I think you were referring was more taking on the theory of panspermia, that organic carbon can survive in space and seed life on other planets if they are hospitable. Being that we are now finding in tact DNA on the exterior of the ISS, there is at least some plausibility to that theory.

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